Meet the Mozilla Seabird! This concept device is the product of the Firefox maker’s Open Web Concept Phone Project and created by seasoned concept creator Billy May. It’s the mystery device that was showcased in an ad during Jimmy Fallon’s show on US TV and that we all had some much fun speculating about. Typically, a bunch of brilliant Electricpig readers predicted that the mystery machine was the Mozilla Seabird. We salute you and celebrate your cleverness with a Mozilla Seabird video and details after the break…
Billy May took tonnes of suggestions and feedback scooped up during Mozilla’s Open Web Concept Phone project and pulled it together as the Mozilla Seabird. The currently entirely fictional phone packs in some majorly exciting functions and we now know just what those dual pico projectors were all about.
As the video above shows, the Mozilla Seabird projectors are designed to pump out a QWERTY keyboard when the device is lying flat and kick out a keyboard and screen when the device is docked. There’s some other quirky inclusions like a detachable Bluetooth dongle/remote control. There’s also an 8MP camera (sadly no match for the Nokia N8 and its 12MP monster) and wireless charging.
While the Mozilla Seabird is pitched as an Android phone it’s not actually going to be hitting the shelves or our best Android phone top 5 any time soon. Mozilla says it’s focusing on the Firefox for Mobile and just produced the Seabird concept to show how creative its users are and trumpet the ideals of the open web.
It looks like we’ll have to keep our fingers crossed for the Facebook phone instead. Shame, we’d love to give a real life version of the Mozilla Seabird a test.
Nice work Gargantua for identifying it first!
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